あなたの率直な意見が聞きたいのです。

Sentence Analyzer

あなた の 率直な 意見 が 聞きたい の です 。

English Translation

I would like to hear your honest opinion.

Furigana

あなたの率直(そっちょく)な意見(いけん)が聞(き)きたいのです。

Romanji

Anata no sotchokuna iken ga kikitai no desu.

Words

貴方 (あなた)

you (referring to someone of equal or lower status); dear (what a wife calls a husband)

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

率直 (そっちょく)

frankness; candour; candor; openheartedness; directness

意見 (いけん)

opinion; view; comment

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

聞く (きく)

to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to query; to learn of; to hear about; to follow (advice); to comply with; to smell (esp. incense); to sample fragrance

です (です)

be; is

Kanji

率

Readings: ソツ、 リツ、 シュツ、 ひき.いる

Meanings: ratio, rate, proportion, %, coefficient, factor

直

Readings: チョク、 ジキ、 ジカ、 ただ.ちに、 なお.す、 -なお.す、 なお.る、 なお.き、 す.ぐ

Meanings: straightaway, honesty, frankness, fix, repair

意

Reading: イ

Meanings: idea, mind, heart, taste, thought, desire, care, liking

見

Readings: ケン、 み.る、 み.える、 み.せる

Meanings: see, hopes, chances, idea, opinion, look at, visible

聞

Readings: ブン、 モン、 き.く、 き.こえる

Meanings: hear, ask, listen